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Vex Robotics
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Meet The Team
A Distinct Identity
Welcome to the Team! Here at Hereford Robotics we are proud to be representing our school in the VEX Robotics Squared Away program. Our team consists of five individual people with each a unique set of skills to help us in the robotics competition. Filip (On the left) is a driver, builder, and coder. Richard (On the right) is a the driver, designer, and builder. Sai (The second one to the left) is a driver, code runner, and builder. Cecelia (Second one to the right) is a book writer for strategies and she is the backup driver. Audrey (In the middle) is the main book writer, writes the design process, and helps with the autonomous code.
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Our Goals
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Our first goal was to get to states. We had accomplished this last year in 2018, and we were determined to accomplish this again this year.
Our second goal was to increase our points and be able to pick up balls.
Our third goal was to be able to coordinate more effectively with our partners in our competitions.
Our last and final goal was to succeed in states and get a invite to the WORLD'S competition in Kentucky.
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For our team we have two strategies, one for skills and one for team work. We also have two drivers. We call them ending and starting drivers. For skills, the starting driver first stacks the cubes on the towers starting with the green cube to the right, on the 9 inch tower. Then we stack the middle and left side green cubes on the two 5 inch towers. That was the goal for the starting driver. Drivers then switch. The ending driver picks up one of the red cubes first and bring them over to the red cube scoring side and scores it there. Finally, the ending driver picks up the blue cube with the front claw and brings it to the other side of the field on the blue scoring side. Also, if the ending driver has any extra time they can try to push any balls into the cubes with the base of the robot. This strategy should give an average of 80-90. For our team work strategy, we ask what our partners can do. If they can stack the green cubes, we let them stack the green cubes and we move the blue and red cubes to their scoring sides. If they cannot stack the green cubes, we would stack all the green cubes and help them move the red and blue cubes after stacking the green cubes. If we have any time left, we push in balls into the red and blue cubes to get extra points. This strategy should give us 90 points or more.
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The first rendition of the robot was our first try of building something for the new challenge. We went with a similar design to last years robot to push us of the ground. It was a compact 3 to 1 gear ratio with a basic claw. The gear ratio of the claw was a big gear to a tiny gear and the motor was attached to the big gear.
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For the second rendition of our robot we upgraded our base to chains. This made the wheels more spread out which provided more stability which gave less chances of tipping over when lifting a cube. In the back we added some weight which made the front claw sturdier and made the claw significantly stronger. The claw was moved to the front of the robot which could reach higher inside the height limit. This robot rode us through one competition.
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For our third rendition of our robot, we went all out. We changed the base, the gear ratio of the claw, and added a back claw. For the base, we have a motor in the middle and an axles through that motor and on those axles, we have multiple stoppers/stubs and two sprockets. One sprocket leads to one side and the other sprocket leads to the other side.
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For the claw, it is beneficial to the robot because it is our main point scorer for the time being. It has a bar stabilizing the cube when we pick up so it doesn't dangle from the claw. The claw has hooks at the end of the claw so the cube doesn't fall off. It is powered by the gear ratio connected to the motor. The gear ratio is a small to big gear ratio. This ensures that even if it lifts slowly it still can lift the cube. This is also known as the bicycle effect. For the towers, it starts out from the back with two bars, connected from another bar to the front of the claw on both sides for more stability. There is a platform in the middle between the wheels which is where the brain goes, the most important part of the robot.
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The back claw was a simple device that gave us the option of carrying two cubes at a time this allowed us to get 80 points and now more recently in skills we got 90 points. Also, in teamwork challenges, it gives us the option of picking up one cube in the back at the start of the match so we don't have to go back and forth on the field.
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We have qualified for states with an excellence award from our second competition.
We are third in the state for our skills accomplishment with a combined score of 122 points.
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